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Mangaluru-headquartered private lender Karnataka Bank bets big on technology to drive its business growth. Bank’s MD & CEO Srikrishnan H shares his views on the bank’s future in a chat with ET’s KR Balasubramanyam. Edited excerpts: Karnataka Bank was started with the goal of responding to the needs of the agriculture sector. In the crowded space of present-day banking, how do you see the bank’s future? Our bank adopted an agri- lending model on a large scale much before the regulations on priority sector lending kicked in. We will continue this legacy as we enter the next 100 years with continued focus on rural, agriculture, MSME and retail business. We are implementing technology-based deliveries in each of these verticals.

dating, and the implications are: Catfishing and online scams are overtaking Cupid’s Arrow. The study surveyed 7,000 people in seven countries worldwide, including India. The rise of powerful AI tools complicates the online dating landscape. By leveraging easy-to-use AI tools, romance scammers can craft convincing messages and realistic profile images to trick people looking for love online.

Salary hike remains the number one reason for job hopping. If dreams of a fatter paycheck are what has attracted you to a particular job or designation, you are not the only one! After all, what is an attractive LinkedIn profile beefed up with glowing recommendations, impeccable academic qualifications, etc worth if they can’t fetch you an enviable paycheck at the end of the day? However, asking for a good salary — that is worthy of your profile, experience, and accomplishments may be an uphill task for many. Whether you are just painfully shy, or just unwilling to beat your drum, you may end up underselling yourself at the interview, and consequently, have to settle for a lesser pay packet. Career expert Matt Gavin, who is associated with Harvard Business School, shared some tips to put your best foot forward when negotiating your compensation package during an interview.

There’s a shortage of accountants. That’s not news if you’re an accountant like me. I’ve been recruiting and hiring accountants for almost 30 years and there’s been many ups and downs throughout that time. However, we’re now in a tough part of a challenging cycle.

women in technology believe that diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) measures manifest only as a theory for the industry, revealing a concerning gap between intention and execution. In a recent survey conducted by Talent500, the owned talent platform of ANSR, about 70% of women in technology believe that the DEI measures undertaken by the industry are marketing measures.

BJP will win all the seven Lok Sabha seats in Delhi with huge margins whether or not the AAP and Congress have an alliance, BJP's city unit president Virendra Sachdeva said on Tuesday. His reaction came as the AAP asserted it will contest six seats in the national capital, leaving just one for senior INDIA bloc ally Congress. The AAP has shown the Congress its reality in Delhi, Sachdeva said. «No matter whether the AAP and Congress have an alliance, we are going to win all the Lok Sabha seats, polling at least 65 per cent votes in the coming elections,» claimed the Delhi BJP president.

review petition has been filed against the Supreme Court's judgment that gave thumbs up to the market regulator SEBI probe in the Adani-Hindenburg issue. The petitioner has said that the judgment has 'apparent errors' and that the SEBI's regulatory failures were overlooked.

Inflation in January dropped modestly, thanks to a cool-off in food prices. Government data released on Monday showed the benchmark consumer price inflation rate declining to 5.1% year-on-year, compared with 5.7% in December, with food inflation easing to 8.3% in the first month of 2024 from 9.5% the month before. While inflation’s declining trend is comforting, this drop isn’t as sharp as some economists had expected.

Motilal Oswal Financial Services had a buy rating with a target price of ₹515. Many other analyst firms have also provided an optimistic growth outlook for ITC. However, ITC's stock recently faced an avoidable overreaction from some investors following the BAT indication to reduce their shareholding for immediate cash requirements.

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Please don’t dabble in doom spending. The term, which first bubbled up on social media, has gained steam following a recent survey by Intuit’s Credit Karma. Consider it 2024’s sequel to last year’s “girl math." If girl math was a light-hearted buddy comedy, doom spending is a horror film.

BSP leader and Lok Sabha MP Danish Ali on Sunday claimed Chief Minister Nitish Kumar may switch sides again if it was politically convenient. Nitish took the oath of office for a record ninth time after his stunning 'Ghar Wapsi' to the BJP-led NDA. «The people of Bihar are embarrassed over the state of affairs. They are very saddened by the way Nitish Kumar made fun of them and their mandate. The pressure on his MLAs is clearly visible. It wouldn't surprise me if Nitish Kumar makes another of his political switchovers in the foreseeable future and return to the Mahagathbandhan (grand alliance),» the BSP MP told on Sunday.

accounts were written. The money was kept in separate paper envelopes, marked as milk, kirana, vegetables, and such. At the start of the month, salary was allocated to these various covers. Everyday accounts were written in the notebook. Mom and dad did not go to sleep before tallying all balances. Despite the daily reinforcement, that habit died with them. None of us kept track of our daily accounts. Maybe we wanted to rebel and be different. Or, perhaps, we were relatively more prosperous and did not have to keep accounts. Or, maybe, it was a bit of both. We were the generation that had positive cash balances in the bank before the next salary arrived. Our parents struggled to pull through the last week of the month. They needed tight control on expenses on an everyday basis. We could relax and care about large-ticket items, and not sweat over small details. However, we were living in denial about our finances, and couldn’t be bothered by the financial crunch that hit us every now and then. Spend when you have the money, stay at home when you don’t, was the overall rule. Those were the days when personal loans and credit cards were not widely available in the retail market. We seemed content with the yoyo state of our household finances, but did not write accounts or make budgets. Many of our friends did not either.

Satya Nadella told ET during his annual visit to the country last week. In an interview, the 56-year-old chairman and CEO of Microsoft Corporation called AI the new factor of productivity and said it will aid India's goal of being a $5-trillion economy. Edited excerpts: Congratulations on completing ten years at Microsoft. You're being talked about as the 'GOAT' of tech CEOs, the greatest of all time. Your success is partly due to the fact that you placed the right things at the heart of Microsoft 10 years ago, in terms of mobile, cloud, and so on. So, what is going to be Microsoft's paradigm ten years from now?

software industry group which counts enterprise firms like Microsoft as its clients said in its representation to the ministry of electronics and information technology (MeitY). Washington DC-headquartered software industry group BSA The Software Alliance said that business-to-business and enterprise software services may not pose the same risk to user safety and public order and that the government should consider content authenticity solutions. Public policy solutions to address the issue of deep fakes remain unclear and continue to elude policymakers, said BSA in a letter to the ministry of electronics and IT earlier this month. The government plans to amend the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021 to include regulations for deep fakes.

union Home Minister Amit Shah to a debate on the state’s guarantee schemes, saying that if the latter was so sure the schemes were the culprit behind Karnataka’s drained coffers, he should clearly state it. Shah is in Mysuru to participate in the Suttur Jatra Mahotsav, a six-day annual celebration with cultural and folk events. BJP leaders, the CM added, should also discontinue guarantee schemes in the saffron-party ruled states, if they objected to them. “The honorable Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who opposed our guarantee schemes, has now stolen not only our guarantee schemes but also the name 'guarantee' and is advertising under the same name. This shows the anti-poor stance and intellectual bankruptcy of that party,” he said.

Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Sunday accused the Haryana government of creating a border «between Punjab and India», referring to the concrete blocks, nails and barbed wire placed on some roads to scuttle the farmers' proposed 'Delhi Chalo' march. He said the Manohar Khattar-led Haryana government has placed as much barbed wire at the state's borders with Punjab as there is at the country's border with Pakistan. Khattar, however, justified the steps taken by his government to seal the state's borders and stop Punjab farmers from marching towards the national capital, saying the arrangements are aimed at maintaining law and order. Haryana authorities have sealed the state's border with Punjab at Shambhu near Ambala district, placing concrete blocks, sandbags, barbed wire and anti-riot vehicles on the roads going towards Delhi. Elaborate arrangements have been made at the state's borders with Punjab in Jind and Fatehabad districts as well.

PV Narasimha Rao, agricultural scientist MS Swaminathan and Karpoori Thakur posthumously, as well as veteran BJP leader Lal Krishna Advani. At five, this is the maximum number of Bharat Ratna announced for a year.

BJP Chief JP Nadda underlined in the Rajya Sabha during the debate on construction of the Ram temple and its consecration on Saturday that those alleging that it was a party event are mistaken as the ceremony was performed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and no leader from his organisation was present. Those who had avoided the program appear to be in the “neither here nor there” category. The discussion on the resolution moved by BJP member Sudhanshu Trivedi saw the participation of members from different parties, with some charging that while Lord Ram belongs to and is revered by everybody the ruling party has politicised the issue for its own electoral benefit. The Opposition alleged that attempts have been made all along to use the issue to create fissures. Nadda and Leader of the House Piyush Goyal, as well as other BJP members, heaped praise on Modi for the whole movement. “We (BJP) had decided in our Palampur conclave in 1989 that we will clear the way for the construction of the Ram temple at Ayodhya but some people tried to create roadblocks,” Nadda said, adding that as president of the BJP youth wing he was witness to and suffered the police action, jail, and other hardships along with other supporters.

Samyukt Kisan Morcha on Saturday welcomed the conferring of Bharat Ratna on Chaudhary Charan Singh and MS Swaminathan but termed it an attempt to divert people's attention from government's failure to provide Minimum Support Price for crops as suggested by the Swaminathan committee. In a statement, the SKM also said Singh and Swaminathan will remain alive in people's memory for their contribution to farmers even without a Bharat Ratna and «denounced» Prime Minister Narendra Modi for failing to solve the crisis of farmers of India. «SKM welcomes BJP government's late recognition of Chaudhary Charan Singh and due recognition of Dr. MS Swaminathan for their contribution to agriculture and farmers in conferring Bharat Ratna on them. While Chaudhary Charan Singh had a role in implementation of Zamindari Abolition in UP leading to ownership rights for peasantry, as the Chairman of the National Farmers' Commission, Dr. MS Swaminathan made recommendations for income guarantee to farmers,» the SKM said in a statement. «However, the Modi government is honouring and decorating the leaders only to cheat the farmers and people. The PM has neither honesty nor sincerity and indulged in a poor vote catching gimmick intended to worsen farmers' misery and use tokenism to camouflage his services to big corporate forces associated with foreign companies in farming,» it said.

The American pork industry has a problem: It makes more tenderloin, ham, sausage and bacon than anybody wants to eat. From giant processors to the farmers who supply them, they are in a predicament largely of their own making. They made production so efficient that demand can’t keep up with supply.